[Trixie]

One of the differences is in how other people OUTSIDE of the industry will PERCEIVE an affiliate versus a performer/webmaster/paysite owner-operator. I personally think that the middlemen in this industry are the ones that the public would be the LEAST sympathetic towards. That's my opinion. I'm open to arguments convincing me I'm wrong, but so far I am not hearing any.

Another of the differences is that performer/webmasters interact more with consumers and can better convey that porn consumers are regular people -- adults -- who have a right to consume porn. I think we also need to have consumers as representatives - I'm not trying to say there should be fewer representatives, just considering who could best represent the people that the strong arm of the law says it needs to protect. There are no feminists or mommies crying about how we need to protect tgp owners or gallery submitters, but they ARE crying about needing to protect their fragile husbands and unparented kids and the poor abused porn actresses.

I have to go to bed now, but those are a couple of examples I can think of off the top of my head. Why is the idea that we are different so offensive to you?

It's not that I don't think you're a "regular person", or that you don't have a family, or that you don't take pride in what you do, or that you have no ethics, or that you don't work for yourself. BUT the people who bring real product that they created themselves to consumers firsthand with no middlemen and few or no upsells have a perspective that's different from someone running a linklist or tgp. I don't understand what is so crazy or offensive about that notion.

There are some people who go above and beyond making a buck to try to educate and portray sexuality honestly and depict women with integrity. People whose porn sites also have artistic, educational, and political merit -- those are the kinds of spokespeople I think the industry needs, not to the exclusion of others, but if we're fantasizing about "the perfect" representative, that's what comes to mind for me. Not that I think all porn should have artistic, educational, or political merit, but it would be nice to show that pornography can be all of those things and would make people more sympathetic. That's just what I think. It's hard for me to find much socially redeeming content on a linklist or tgp, but maybe I'm just not looking hard enough.